Photo: Floppy36 · CC BY-SA 3.0No one born in Saint-Maur has made the famous people list yet
Of its neighbours, Châteauroux, 3 mi away, lists the most: 117, Gérard Depardieu first. Across Indre, 65 towns list someone born there. No town in Indre lists more than Châteauroux, with 117. Issoudun has the second-longest list in Indre, after Châteauroux, with 47.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is Saint-Maur (by its INSEE code) and whose French Wikipedia article agrees, and their English article too when they have one. Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Saint-Maur as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Saint-Maur
The neighbour with the most names is Châteauroux, at 117.
Questions about famous people from Saint-Maur
Who counts as from Saint-Maur?
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Saint-Maur itself, matched by its INSEE code (a commune merged into it counts when the dates allow), whose French Wikipedia article agrees, and their English article too when they have one. A hospital or neighbourhood recorded without its commune isn’t matched. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a hospital, a neighbourhood or a wider area, another commune, or missing, or their articles may not name a birthplace. We only list people the sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations, how many Wikipedia and sister-site articles cover each person) and French and English Wikipedia (each person’s articles confirm the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are matched to the commune by INSEE code and its history of mergers (INSEE COG 2026). Ranked by the number of articles. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across French towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the license below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (2)
- Gérard Depardieu: Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christine Boutin: Benjamin Lemaire - Virtuo Presse, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.